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I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
Originally posted by Smiley
Car manufacturing is a mature industry - we are nearing the 100th anniversary of the Model T Ford. As such, the long term approach works better.
The high risk approach works best in emerging industries. That's why Silicon Valley is in America.
I like this explaination. For slow growth industries where costumers are fickle maybe the low risk-low return model is different while for less mature industries it pays to be bold.
You might like the explanation, but it's a bad one. There are plenty of mature industries led by American companies with regard to profitability.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
Originally posted by Bosh
Definately! Just look how well their economy has been doing these past years! Now if that isn't something to emulate, I don't know what is.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
Ford, GM, Chrysler have always gone through booms and busts, this is no different from the others except for GM maybe, their situation seems much worse, Japanese companies have the same issues and currently there is only one really viable Jap company Toyota, Mishibishu is basically bankrupt, and Mazda, Nissan struggle for profits some recent years, so are not really doing better than Ford.
Now what's really interesting is the amout of effort that Hyundai is putting into quality. They've taken the cars from being POS to having quality on par with (or even exceeding that of) Japanese car companies in a lot of studies and they're increasing market share in America fast, the biggest thing slowing them down is how strong the won is getting...
Yeah, I purposefully went out looking for a Hyundai. And I am looking forward to owning my Accent for 10ish years or more.
JM
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Was good for my mom.. I heard they got a lot better arround 2000.
JM
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Originally posted by DanS
You might like the explanation, but it's a bad one. There are plenty of mature industries led by American companies with regard to profitability.
such as oil...
but that is influenced by geography and shall we say, certain other factors.
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